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Zude in the Nude?
By admin | May 1, 2007
Just tried to get back onto the Zude site and what do I find? They changed their minds and will be opening a private beta becaus e they can’t handle the amount of traffic? Is this good marketing to build up some more buzz or were they really unprepared?
On Monday, April 30th, we launched our pre-beta release — and within 2 hours the amount of traffic we received exceeded our wildest expectations — and our server’s capacity! In response, we feverishly worked throughout the day to move the servers to a larger platform.
Twenty-four hours later we officially launched the public Beta for Zude. This time it only took 45 minutes for the traffic to reach a deafening level. What we have learned from this experience is the following: (1) clearly the world is curious/excited/hopeful/interested in Zude, and (2) our most optimistic projections could not have prepared us for the flood-gate opening — and ultimately the words “not prepared” best describe our situation.
As such, the best thing we can do is to convert our hoped-for public beta into a private one. We believe that only then, with a measure of control over the massive level of traffic that we have received, will we be able to help bring Zude into the global internet community.
If you have already signed up for the Zude beta, you will be receiving an email shortly with details. We hope you will consider helping us accomplish these tasks.
Thanks to all for their supreme patience and understanding.
– Jim, Steve, and the entire 5g team
So no Zude for you yet. Lucky I’ve got a link for Zude which will get you into the site so you can have a look around what the fuss is all about anyway 
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May 2nd, 2007 at 10:50 am
Another failed startup. Looks quite unpolished.
Things moving around is kind of annoying.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:03 am
Yeah I didn’t really like the looks of it, quite messy. But I will give it a shot once they are open
June 30th, 2007 at 11:34 am
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